Stephen Sutcliffe

About

Stephen Sutcliffe's work draws upon a personal archive of broadcast material and printed ephemera. Recordings made from the television or radio, clippings from newspapers or books are run together to contradict each other or find an unlikely common ground. His short films often employ several sources simultaneously, obscuring part of the footage or layering soundtracks to undermine the integrity of the original and instill a notion of doubt. Public figures become linked by biographical detail or anecdote. Diverse genres find association in the character of their language or motifs. Sutcliffe fragments sound and imagery, making slight, often imperceptible edits and disrupting linear progression. His work operates as collage; acting upon an array of information, brokering strange marriages and revealing traits of neuroses in its raw material. For his solo exhibition at Cubitt, Sutcliffe has developed a multi-channel video piece that will be shown alongside a series of wall drawings based upon comic illustrations collected from books and magazines. Curated by Michelle Cotton